In early June, Olof Bärtås defended his master thesis at the Department of History, Lund University. It is a study of the processes of cultural Europeanization in Sweden 1977–1989, drawing on perspectives from the history of knowledge. Does Sweden belong to Europe? The question itself has a unique position in Swedish historiography; it arose in…

This summer Johan Östling will be a Simone Veil Fellow at the research institute Project House Europe at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munch. During his time in the Bavarian capital, he will be preparing his new project on the Europeanisation of universities since the 1980s and the emergence of the knowledge society. His fellowship…

David Larsson Heidenblad has received funding for a new project on the popularisation of stock saving in Sweden. Together with Axel Vikström, (currently PhD-student at Örebro University) he will investigate the role of ”Market communicators”, such as stock market columnists, private finance advisors, and so called ’savings economists’, tracing developments from 1980 to 2020. The…

In a review essay in the journal History of Humanities, Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen discusses three new books dealing with the humanities in the modern welfare state: Folkhemmets styvbarn by Hampus Östh Gustafsson, Humanister i offentligheten by Johan Östling, Anton Jansson, and Ragni Svensson Stringberg, and The Humanities and the Modern Politics of Knowledge which is edited by Anders Ekström and Hampus Östh…

In a new article in Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Anna Nilsson Hammar and Svante Norrhem discuss learning and knowledge circulation in “Knowing How: Estate Management, Practical Knowledge, and Agency among Aristocratic Women in Early Modern Sweden”. In the seventeenth Century, Swedish aristocratic women successfully acted as managers of landed estates, mills and iron…

This week a course in the history of knowledge (7.5 ECTS) starts as part of the master programme in historical studies at the Department of History, Lund University. The teachers, David Larsson Heidenblad and Johan Östling, provide this course for a third time. Due to the rapid development of the field, they have revised the…

Tamson Pietsch, a member of LUCK’s International Advisory Board, has published a new book, The Floating University: Experience, Empire, and the Politics of Knowledge (University of Chicago Press): The Floating University sheds light on a story of optimism and imperialist ambition in the 1920s. In 1926, New York University professor James E. Lough—an educational reformer with big dreams—embarked…

On Wednesday 3 May, 10.15–12.00 (CET), the history of knowledge seminar returns to discuss two new journal issues covering the history of knowledge and the history of education, published in 2022. History of Education Review, the official journal of the Australian and New Zealand History of Education Society, published a themed section, “The History of…

In a new episode of the podcast Ceteris Never Paribus, the host Maria Bach speaks to Evelina Kallträsk, David Larsson Heidenblad, Anna Nilsson Hammar and Johan Östling, all members of the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK). They discuss what is the history of knowledge and how its approaches might be useful for historians…